RAC

grammy award winning recording artist ✨ [email protected]

[RAC @RAC]

i started making my own audio plugins!
-> https://t.co/ubBnGOYGty

macOS for now, but Windows soon.

[RAC @RAC]

given i'm the remix guy, figured i'd chime in here.

I know everybody in music just hates AI by default, but I find this to be mostly benign.

If people wanna create alternative covers of songs they like and try interesting combinations, I certainly don't care. I'll most likely enable the setting given it's opt-in.

The financials are interesting though and any added revenue stream is welcome.

I think Spotify is avoiding the generative backlash because it's portrayed as a "cover/remix", but it's the same exact models that generate music from text prompts. There is no difference.

Either a) they are training their own model from their catalog without permission or b) licensing an existing model.

I assume the latter, and those were still likely trained on Youtube.

This original post is a bit hyperbolic tbh, it's not gonna solve the underlying financial model, but if Spotify continues to add more social and superfan features, I think it's a step in the right direction.

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it.

Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now.

The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work.

Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028.

This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators.

A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music.

“Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.”

Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵

[Rocco @_roccosv]

Seth Rogen says he and his wife are now more grateful than ever that they decided not to have children he’s not afraid to explain why.

He admits they used to question whether they’d made the right decision, but now their conversations have shifted to, “Honestly, thank God we don’t have children.”

His reasoning? They’re in the prime of their lives, understand themselves better than ever, and have the freedom to pursue their careers, enjoy life, and build the kind of relationship they’ve always wanted.

But Seth took it a step further, saying he sees people with children struggling to find the same time for work and personal enjoyment that he and his wife have.

“I seem to get a lot more active enjoyment out of not having kids than anyone I know seems to get out of having kids.”

That statement will probably divide people. Some see raising children as life’s greatest joy, while others believe a fulfilling life doesn’t have to include parenthood.

Do you think Seth has a point, or is there a kind of happiness you can only understand after having children?

[RAC @RAC]

hello @cursor_ai, i really like @bot but this past week my experience has gone from barely touching 15% of weekly usage to hitting 100% in one day with literally no change in behavior. I've been a user since day 1.

I pay $200/mo for this and I even topped up an extra $40 to finish some simple tasks, and I'm back at 100% with 2 days to go.

What I liked about Grok Bot was that it just worked, and at this point, it's not usable. It's not lost on me that compute is expensive but this feels like a rug pull. I was willing to accept and pay for a subfrontier model, but this is forcing my hand to switch.

Judging from the conversation here, I am not alone.

[RAC @RAC]

been thinking about why AI coding and AI music feel so different. faster code lets me build things i couldn't before.

making 100 more songs doesn't give anyone 100 more reasons to care.

the value of automation depends on what you're making.

also, i actually like making music. there are tedious parts i'd happily automate, but the process itself is a big part of why i do it.

[RAC @RAC]

i bought one of these just to play it

[⭕ Brock Pierson @brockpierson]

If you played Descent over LAN in the 90s, we probably would have been friends

[RAC @RAC]

great hotel btw

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Elizabeth Holmes' handwritten notes to herself from her Theranos days. These notes exude authenticity and warmth. This is not a person who treats herself as an instrument to be optimally calibrated for power, status, and influence: https://t.co/eOSPrRcUgl

[RAC @RAC]

my bad

[Mandy @burty123m]

@RAC one of your vans is parked outside our house in a designated disabled bay!!
Really not good practise!

[RAC @RAC]

you can just build things now.

I built a @Patreon MCP.
https://t.co/Ui3qRqZZf9

- pull campaigns/tiers/patrons/posts
- analyze patron status + lifetime support
- draft/publish/schedule/delete posts
- manage webhooks

FYI, post writes use patreon's hidden api, not the official one. I hope they see this and add it to official api.

[RAC @RAC]

@SensorsSocial i have it in my HA app.

[RAC @RAC]

you can just build stuff now,

home assistant dashboard/calendar.
it shows me at a glance what is open/locked, air temp, co2, what plants need watering, power consumption.

pi zero with e-ink display. I had astra design the enclosure which is obviously oversized. the base is actually 2x5U gridfinity compatible.

[RAC @RAC]

it’s a small thing but i just had my first open source contribution accepted and merged.

feelsgoodman.jpg

[RAC @RAC]

you can just build stuff now

this is a sensor that tracks how much water is left in my berkey water filter. my tap water is pretty good quality but it's an extra assurance knowing it's properly filtered and without buying bottled water.

it's easy to forget to refill it because there's no visual cue of how much is left until you literally try to fill a cup.

so I built a 3d printed scale with opus 5.5, it sourced the parts, designed the shape, wrote the esp32 code, and now i have a simple visual cue for anybody in the house of when it needs to be refilled. I also get a notification through home assistant.

is this necessary? absolutely not, but it's one less thing to think about.

[RAC @RAC]

@shacheng oh yeah, got the X1C and P1S a few years back. I already loved it, but the agents are so much better at modeling now.

[RAC @RAC]

you can just build stuff now,

3d printed enclosure for networking equipment, pretty much entirely designed by astra.

I could have done a small 10" rack, but it didnt fit my ecoflow UPS and this is just a small satellite AP in a room. It has a enclosure in the back for a power strip and looks cleaner than a bunch of scattered equipment.

[RAC @RAC]

@cb_ai_ apollo PLT-1 sensors

[RAC @RAC]

you can just build stuff now

i built a digital version of my house in blender based on polycam lidar scans, then astra did a detail pass based on photos. basically every lamp, door, plant or electronic component is viewable in this format. i can toggle lights, see if plants need watering. The blender version is used by imagegen to create these stylized dioramas, that react to their actual state and time of day.

this is all seamless inside of the home assistant app as a dashboard.

when people talk about personalized software this is what I envision.

[RAC @RAC]

@thomasroux astra did all the work, not all models are equal for 3d stuff. it’s far from perfect, but with enough passes it eventually got there. It’s definitely not a clean process.

[RAC @RAC]

not gonna post my whole house lol but it’s a pretty fun way to navigate home assistant and see everything from a glance.

not sure how it got so toasty … ugh.

[RAC @RAC]

@morganpage apollo PLT-1

[RAC @RAC]

@thattallguy yep

[RAC @RAC]

@austinbrenneman i have apollo plt1 sensors in every plant. Some are automated (another project) but it’s more like a notification that it’s under 20%.

[RAC @RAC]

@JoshuaFisher bambu x1C and P1S! yeah it breaks it up into smaller prints